Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Niger and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Sarah Menescal to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Tremeloes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Warsaw,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Agent Orange,
Gil Scott Heron,
Mo-Dettes,
Quadrant,
The Fortunes,
X-101,
The Happenings,
Gang Gang Dance,
Blake Baxter,
Jeff Lynne,
Letta Mbulu,
The Searchers,
Clear Light,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
UT,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Human League,
The Velvet Underground,
The Divine Comedy,
Frankie Knuckles,
Faust,
Bang On A Can,
the Bar-Kays,
Lou Reed,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Vogues,
Fear,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Idris Muhammad,
Joy Division,
Lalo Schifrin,
Deepchord,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Q and Not U,
Infiniti,
Zero Boys,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Fatback Band,
The Index,
Deadbeat,
The Buckinghams,
Eric B and Rakim,
Flash Fearless,
Sexual Harrassment,
Gong,
The Music Machine,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jeff Mills,
B.T. Express,
Boredoms,
Babytalk,
Japan,
Camberwell Now,
These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.